To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And... The Works of John Dryden,: Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, an epistle ... - Page 37by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...reason's glimm'ring ray J Was leut, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's...hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; 10 So dies, and so dissolves in supernat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...glimmering ray 1 Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, f But guide us upward to a better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head, And found that one first principle must be ; But what, or who, that Universal HE ; Whether... | |
| John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...glimmering ray ) Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, /But guide us upward to a better day. 1 And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led Prom canse to canse, to Nature's secret head, And found that one first principle must be ; But what,... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...glimm'riug ray 1 Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to n better day. J And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...at religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supcrnat'ral light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to nature's... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...reason's glimm'nng rayn Mas lent not to assure our doubtful way, V But guide us upward to a belter day. j hto' Reason's wounds alone, si^ht ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernit'ral light. Snmet'ew.whoselampshonebrighttr.havcbeciilcd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; So dies, anil so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led From cause... | |
| England - 1820 - 774 pages
...glimmering ray Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as these nightly tapers disappear When day's bright Lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grow's rea&on at religion's »ight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." IMlgiaLaiel.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...brighter, have been led From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head, And found that one first principle must be ; But what, or who, that Universal HE ; Whether... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright...hemisphere; 'So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight; ~lSo dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, whoso lamp shone brighter, have been led... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear I When day's bright lord aseends our hemisphere; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural lighl. Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been Iee From eause to eause, to Nature's seeret head,... | |
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